“I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.” MindMeanArtFactsNaturalSecretMoralGeniusPleaseIntellectProfessionInferiority Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846 Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.” IfsGivingWritingStoriesForgetSecretPleaseBlissShort StorySoleStory WritingPlease Yourself Author:O. Henry
“And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when we seem to be useless and worthy of all contempt, when we seem to have failed, when we seem to be destroyed and devoured, it is then that the deep and secret selfishness that is too close to us for us to identify is stripped away from our souls. It is in this darkness that we find liberty. It is in this abandonment that we are made strong. This is the night which empties us and makes us pure.” MindMadeSoulSeemsNightLeftStrongSecretLibertyDarknessComfortPleasePureWorthyDestroyedSelfishnessUselessContemptAbandonment Author:Thomas Merton